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NEWS FROM
WORTHVILLE
By Mrs. W. G. Avery
Mrs. Minnie Lee Hodges
liad as guests Sunday
afternoon her daughter, Mrs.
Tom Collins and grandsons,
Tommy, Larry, and Jimmy,
all of Decatur, Miss Sheila
Stephens of Marietta, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Wilkerson and
Mr. John O'Neal of the Stark
Community and Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Knowles of the
Fincherville Community.
We are offering our
condolences to Mrs. Emma
Yancey and Mr. Tommy
Jordan on the death of Mr.
John Lee Harris of Covington
Friday. Mr. Harris was the
brother of Mrs. Yancey and
grandfather of Mr. Jordan.
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Ireland
had as supper guests Friday
evening Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Stroud of Henry County.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Avery
had as a spend the day guest
Sunday their sister, Mrs.
Eloise Guess of College Park
and during the afternoon Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Avery of
Covington visited them.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. L.
J. Washington Sunday were
their daughter and her
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Don
Fort inberry of Clarkston.
Alan Washington, son of
Mr. and Stanley Washington,
spent the weekend with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Hearn of Hampton, Mr.
and Mrs. Hearn returned
Alan to his home Sunday
afternoon and were supper
guests of the Washingtons.
Mrs. Nellie Cochran had as
spend the day guests Sunday
her daughter, Mrs. Edna
Wilkerson of Atlanta, Mr.
and Mrs. Mike McKinney of
Morrow and Mrs. David
State Patrol BPW Helps
To Combat Promote “™°t
Rural Crime IW Year
Atlanta The Georgia
State Patrol, reacting to a
sudden upsurge in rural
violence in Georgia, has
announced a major cam
paign to counter the violence
with increased patrols and
greater visibility in rural
areas of the state.
Georgia Public Safety
Commissioner Colonel Her
man Cofer said today that
traffic enforcement would
not suffer but that “country
store owners will be seeing
more of the State Patrol
beginning immediately.”
Colonel Cofer said several
measures will be employed
to help prevent and solve the
rash of armed robberies
occurring out in the state
which has seen nine persons
killed in recent days.
“Members of the State
Patrol will be holding more
license checks; greater at
tention will be given to
suspicious vehicles and per
sons ; rural store owners are
likely to have a trooper visit
them at any hour of the day,
particularly around opening
and closing times; closer
contact will be made with
county sheriff's offices, coun
ty police departments and
local police to insure a more
unified effort toward appre
hension of such cold blooded
murderers,” he said.
Colonel Cofer said that
additional enforcement em
phasis will come through the
use of the Patrol’s Task
Force to supplement local
officers in areas where such
violence occurs. He said
plans include dividing the
Task Force into four strike
force teams and immediately
dispatching them to areas
hardest hit by rural armed
robberies.
Colonel Cofer noted that
rural store owners and
operators could lend consi
derable help to the Patrol
and local police by alerting
them to suspicious persons,
getting good descriptions of
robbers and escape vehicles
and making their businesses
less vulnerable to would be
robbers. “If we are going to
reverse this trend of sense
less robberies and killings,
we need every measure of
Burlord and Carin of
Flovilla.
Miss Janet Washington of
Atlanta spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. S. A. Washington. Other
guests during the weekend
were Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Wilkins of Jackson and Mrs.
Eloise Guess of College Park.
Mrs. Harold Spruell and
her daughter, Mrs. Lamar
Long of the Stark Community
spent last Thursday shopping
at Greenbriar Shopping
Center near Atlanta.
Guests of Mrs. J. H. Pope
Sunday were her daughter
Mrs. Robert Wilson and Mr.
Wilson of Decatur.
Mrs. Exie Bohannon of
Newton County visited Mrs.
Emma Yancey, Charles and
the Paul Yancey family last
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J.
Washington visited their
sister, Mrs. Ermine Wash
ington in Hilltop Nursing
Home and Mr. Early Grant
in Forsyth last Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. Washington
remains about the same. We
hope she will soon be much
better.
Mrs. S. A. Washington and
Miss Janet Washington visi
ted Mr. and Mrs. Tommy
Granger of Covington Satur
day afternoon.
Mrs. S. J. Ireland attended
a WMU meeting at Sardis
Baptist Church in Henry
County last Tuesday after
noon.
Mrs. Emma Yancey, Mr.
Paul Yancey, and Mrs.
Tommy Jordan attended the
funeral of Mr. John Lee
Harris in Covington Sunday
afternoon.
(Editor's Note: This series
of articles is being carried
during the month of Feb
ruary as a public information
service on behalf of the
International Business Week
Committee of Jackson BPW
Club, Annadawn Edwards,
chairman, as part of their
observance of International
Women’s Year.)
The following data may
give you information regard
ing education of women, or
lack of it, in a few of the
countries of today’s world.
In Africa, twenty-five of
the countries have an
illiteracy rate for women of
over ninety percent, accord
ing to statistics available a
year ago. Education for girls
there is still considered
unimportant. Some of the
reasons for this condition are
the subordinate states of
women, lack of money,
impractical curricula geared
mainly to young children.
Some advancement is being
made in some of the African
countries but much still
needs to be accomplished. In
this area women’s organiza
tions can be prime movers in
the work.
The countries of Asia are
beginning to take anew look
at evaluation of women, and
some doors are being slowly
opened to education for
women in the higher institu
tions of learning.
In Europe the standard of
education is behind North
America, but ahead of all
other continents, if soviet
Russia is omitted, where the
latest figures available show
only 2.2 percent illiteracy
among women. In the United
States the latest available
figures show 1.8 percent
illiteracy rale for women, the
lowest of any country. The
United States is the only
country where the illiteracy
rale is lower for women, 1.8
percent, than for men, 2.5
help we can get," he said.
"The Stale Patrol and local
police will give every ounce
of help we can and we ask all
the public support we can
gel.’’
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Mr. Vaughn
Buried
On Friday
Mr. Walter E. Vaughn, 57,
of 158 West Avenue, Jackson,
died late Wednesday night at
West bury Medical Care
Home in Jenkinsburg after a
long period of declining
health. He had been a patient
there since August, 1974.
A native of Butts County,
he was born April 25, 1917,
the son of the late Mr. Horace
Monroe Vaughn, Sr. and Mrs.
Mattie Plymale Vaughn, who
survives.
Mr. Vaughn retired in July
1973 from Georgia Power
Company after serving 24
years. He was a member of
Towaliga Baptist Church.
Funeral services were held
Friday at 2:30 o’clock from
the Towaliga Baptist Church
with the Rev. Joe Parham,
pastor. Rev. Herman Wike,
and Elder W. S. Kelly,
officiating. Interment was in <3
Jackson City Cemetery with
Haisten Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
Mr. Vaughn is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Helen Ridge
way Vaughn; his mother,
Mrs. Horace M. Vaughn, Sr.,
both of Jackson; a daughter,
Mrs. Richard Sammons of
Atlanta; a son, Walter E.
Vaughn of Smithville, Mo.;
three sisters, Mrs. H. P. Hall,
Mrs. Gervin R. Lewis, and
Mrs. William M. Towles, all
of Jackson; a sister-in-law,
Mrs. Homer M. Vaughn, Jr.,
of Charlotte, North Carolina;
three grandchildren, Miss
Suzie Vaughn of Smithville,
Mo., Lanier and Lee Sam
mons of Atlanta; several
nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were William
Marks Towles, Homer R.
Lewis, Harry G. Lewis,
Julian C. Lewis, Lee Roy
Todd, and Jerry Sammons.
What is C.V.A.E.? Let me
take this opportunity to
explain. C.V.A.E. stands for
Coordinated Vocational-A
cademic Education and that
is exactly what it is. C.V.A.E.
is a vocational program
designed to relate vocations
and careers to the regular
school work such as math
and English. It is also a co-op
program that gives students
the opportunity to leave
school early and work at a
regular or part time job.
The C.V.A.E. club is
V.O.C.A. which means Vo
cational Opportunities Clubs
of America. The club has
many activities. Presently
(he V.O.C.A. club is working
on a community project with
the Chamber of Commerce.
We are landscaping the office
building of Delta Tank
Company.
The club has tilled the
ground, fertilized the soil,
and purchased grass and
shrubbery to plant as soon as
weather permits. Approxi
mate cost of the project will
be $175.00 donated by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Welcome to Jackson Delta
Tank Company. Henry
Kitchens, President.
percent.
In South America almost
all of the nations give equal
access to education at all
levels to women, but, in
practice, women seldom
receive education commen
surate with their needs and
capacities. The universities
are apathetic in their attitude
toward women students and
do little in the way of
curriculum offerings to at
tract them.
Women have a long way to
go to gain equality in the field
of education throughout the
world, but progress is being
made in most of the countries
within the last ten years, and
women themselves are at
last awakening to the fact
that with equal education
they can compete with men,
and qualify for equal places
in the sun.
Mrs. Baxter
Passes On
Thursday
Mrs. Margie Marie Cardell
Baxter, 84, of 412 Brookwood
Avenue, Jackson, died about
6:30 o’clock Thursday night,
February 6th, at the Sylvan
Grove Hospital where she
had been a patient for a day.
She had been in declining
health for several years and
had been a patient at
West bury for almost a year
She was born on September
18, 1890. the daughter of the
late Mr. E. Peter Cardell and
Mrs. Fannie Seymour Car
dell. She was the widow of
Mr. Joseph J. Baxter.
She was a member of
West side Baptist Church and
a charter member of Second
Baptis. Church.
Funeral services were
conducted Saturday, Febru
ary Bth, at 3:00 p.m. from
Westside Baptist Church
with Rev. Larry Youngblood,
pastor, Rev. Eugene Mad
dox, pastor of the Rock
Baptist Church, and the Rev.
Edgar Welch, former pastor
of the Macedonia Baptist
Church, officiating. Inter-,
ment was in the Jackson City
Cemetery with Sherrell Fu
neral Home in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Baxter is survived by
two sons, Frank Baxter and
Charles Baxter, both of
Jackson; one daughter, Mrs.
Frances Kitchens of Jack
son; 19 grandchildren, seve
ral great grandchildren,
several nieces and nephews.
ADULT LEAGUE
In games played Thursday,
February 6, the Trailblazers
beat Kym Company 44 to 32.
High scorers for the Blazers
were James Morgan with 20
points and Danny Taylor
with 9 points. For Kym Cos.,
Billy Duke scored 12 points
and Tommy Glidewell had 11
points.
In the second game, the
Stars beat the White Knights
57 to 43. High scorers for the
Stars were Wayne Baxter
with 10 points and Charles
McElhaney with 13 points.
For the Knights, Bill Shot
well had 11 points and Coach
Brumley 8 points.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE TO
PROPERTY
OWNERS
You need to come in and sign
your tax return and check your
exemptions.
Due to all the changes that are
being made it is to your benefit.
Come in immediately.
Mary Will Hearn
TAX COMMISSIONER
BUTTS COUNTY JACKSON, GA.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1975
Prescribed
Burning
CARL MELEAR
Forester
Burning forest lands inten
tionally to achieve a desired
effect is known by foresters
to be a very effective forest
management tool. To some
people any fire on forest land
is destructive but careful
planning and careful execu
tion can show that it can be
beneficial in some cases.
There are many different
situations in which pre
scribed fire should be
recommended. Removal of
small scrubby hardwood
trees can be accomplished by
a controlled fire which kills
these smaller trees and does
not harm the larger valuable
trees. This opens up the
forest land and actually
lessens the chances of
wildlife by removing some of
the ground litter which could
spread wildfire under exces
sively dry conditions. Condi
tions will be improved for
wildlife because browse
plants and grasses will come
in after the fire where there
were none before.
Prescribed fire can be a
valuable tool in forest
regeneration in that it
removes much of the ground
cover exposing the mineral
soil. Pine seeds must fall on
bare soil before they will
germinate. The young seed
lings will be free of hardwood
competition during their
early developing years when
the best growth is essential.
Fire can help in the control
of some forest tree diseases
mainly in young pine
plantations.
If you feel that fire could be
beneficial to your forest
lands contact the Butts-Hen
ry Forestry Unit and we will
check and see if fire can help
in your situation.
CARD OF THANKS
I wisli to thank the many
friends who remembered me
with flowers, cards, calls,
prayers and visits while I
was a patient at Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital
and since my return home
last week. Your many acts of
kindness will always be
cherished and gratefully
remembered. Mrs. Lur
lene Jones.
Unemployment Compensation
For Georgia Veterans
Atlanta ln the wake of
the current high rate of
unemployment, Georgia De
partment of Veterans Ser
vice Director Pete Wheeler is
advising Georgia veterans of
unemployment compensa
tion benefits which are
available to help veterans
meet some of their basic
weekly needs while search
ing for jobs.
Benefits are paid from
Federal funds, but the
amount and duration of
payments are governed by
State laws. Veterans in
Georgia may draw unem
ployment compensation in
amounts ranging from sl2 to
S7O per week for a maximum
of 26 weeks. The amount of
payment is based on the
veteran’s earnings while in
the military.
To be eligible, a veteran
must have had at least 90
days of continuous service
except when a veteran may
have been separated because
of a service-connected disa
bility, and the veteran must
have been discharged under
conditions other than disho
norable, or in the case of
officers, they must not have
resigned “for the good of the
service.” In addition, all
applicants must be able to
wmrk and be available for
work. Veterans should bring
their separation papers (DD
Form 214) and make applica
tion at their local State
employment office as soon as
possible after leaving milita
ry service.
Inasmuch as the amount of
unemployment compensa
tion a veteran may receive is
determined by the veteran's
earnings during the first four
quarters of the immediate
past live quarters prior to the
quarter in which a claim is
filed, it is to the veteran's
advantage to apply as soon
as possible after discharge,
certainly within a year.
Veterans desiring informa
tion about other benefits as
well as assistance in making
application for them are
advised to contact the
nearest office of the Georgia
Department of Veterans
Service.
The larva of the Poly
phemus moth has been es
timated to eat 86,000
times its own weight in its
56 days as a caterpillar.
BUSINESS
GOES WHERE
IT IS
APPRECIATED
AND
STAYS WHERE
IT IS
SATISFIED.
CARTER MOTOR CO., INC.
137 W. Third St
Jackson, Georgia
Phone 775-3108
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STATE BANK
BELLY DANCING CLASS
TO BEGIN ANEW
The recreation department
is interested in starting
another dancing class within
two weeks. Anyone interest
ed may call 775-2404 for
further information and
pre-registration. Classes will
be held on Thursday nights.
Chrysler
Imperial
